Legal Opinion
In Re Texas
District Court, E.D. Texas
Decided August 15, 2000No. 5:00 CV 118PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
FOLSOM, District Judge.
Before the Court is the State of Texas’s (the “State”) “Emergency Motion to Remand,” (Dkt. No. 16). The State argues that this Court lacks jurisdiction over a state-court proceeding initiated to investigate the conduct of several private attorneys. After consideration, the Court concludes that it does have jurisdiction over the instant proceeding. The State’s motion to remand is therefore denied.
BACKGROUND
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The genesis of this matter is a March 22, 1996 agreement between then-Texas attorney general Dan Morales and several private attorneys…
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